YONGKANG YANG

Yongkang Yang

I'm a PhD Candidate at Rotterdam School of Management, Eramsus University Rotterdam, with Prof. Daan van Knippenberg as my promotor.

My research explores teams evolve and interact in dynamic context, aiming to identify strategies that help teams overcome challenges and capitalize on opportunities to enhance their performance. I deploy longitudinal designs, social network approach, etc. to explore the dynamics in work teams. Additionally, I have interests in prosocial behavior, unethical conduct in the workplace, and the potential impact of generative AI on organizations and business practices.

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News

2024.09 Finished 2024 Berlin Marathon, Germany (42.195km)
2024.09 "Differentiated information elaboration" at OB/HRM PhD Seminar, Wuhan University, China
2024.06 Paper presentation at AOM in Chicago
2024.06 Personal webiste online
2024.04 2.5 year assessment [PASS]
2024.04 Paper accepted by Career Development Quarterly
2023.08 Symposium presentation at AOM in Boston
2023.06 IACMR conference visit in HK
2022.10 First-year assessment [PASS]
2022.04 FInished 2022 Rotterdam Marathon, Netherlands (42.195km)
2021.09 Started my PhD at RSM, Erasmus University
2021.09 Paper accepted by Journal of Happiness Studies
2020.09 First paper accepted by Journal of Business Ethics
2018.04 Finished 2018 Wuhan Marathon, China (42.195km)

Publication	How and when future orientation shapes weekly career adaptability Yongkang Yang, Yidong Tu, Shuoli Wang, Yajun Fan, The Career Development Quarterly*, 2024 [Project page] [PDF]
	Focusing on the past, present, or future? Why proactive personality increases weekly subjective well-being Shuoli Wang, Yidong Tu, Tongtong Zhao, Yongkang Yang* Journal of Happiness Studies, 2022 [Project page] [PDF]
	Treat floating people fairly: How compensation equity and multilevel social exclusion influence prosocial behavior among china’s floating population. Yidong Tu, Ying Zhang, Yongkang Yang, Shuoli Wang, Journal of Business Ethics*, 2022 [Project page] [PDF]

Paper Under Review

1. Yang, Y., van Knippenberg. D. Nederveen Pieterse, A., Li, J. Title hidden for peer-review. Ready to submit to OBHDP.

2. Yang, Y., Duan, M. Yuan, S., Xing, L. Title hidden for peer-review. Journal of Managerial Psychology (under review).

Conference Presentation

1. Lyubykh, Z., Bajet Mestre, E., Gloor, J., Mercer, D., Scheuer, C.-L., Walsh, M., McNally, C., Arnold, K., Loughlin, C., Chalise, S., Agnihotri, N., Khattab, J., Hentschel, T., Yang, Y., Li, J., Pieterse, A., Alonso, N., Turner, N., & Hideg, I. (2023). Gender equity and diversity in the workplace: The role of allyship and leadership. Academy of Management Proceedings. Symposium presented at 83rd Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.

2. Y. Yang., van Knippenberg. D., Pieterse, A., Li, J. (2024) Cross-Culture and Within-Culture Information Elaboration: The Role of Learning Orientation. Academy of Management Proceedings. Paper presented at 84th Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

3. Y. Yang., Li, J, van Knippenberg. D., Pieterse, A. (July 2022). How changes in functional background diversity affect transactive memory and team performance. Extended abstract submitted to Development Workshop for Academy of Management Journal, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Working In Progress

PhD Dissertation (Click to expand)

My PhD explores how teams evolve and interact in dynamic context. This includes dynamic team composition, dynamic team diversity, and dynamic within team differentiation

1. Yang, Y., van Knippenberg, D., Li, J., Nederveen Pieterse, A. Dynamic team functional diversity/Team membership change and team processes: A field study. Stage: Data Analyzing.

2. Yang, Y., van Knippenberg, D., Nederveen Pieterse, A., Li, J. Differentiated information elaboration over time. Stage: Data Analyzing.

3. Yang, Y., Nederveen Pieterse, A., van Knippenberg, D., Li, J. Membership Change in Culturally Diverse Teams: Cultural Diversity's Role in Mitigating Disruption. Stage: Data Analysis.

Continuation of the PhD projects

1. Yang, Y. AI-human teaming and the future directions of team diversity research. Stage: Conceptualization.

2. Fu, L., Yang, Y. Deep level diversity/cross-culture conflict: A longitudinal study. Stage: Conceptualization/Data Analyzing.

Leadership Research (Click to expand)

Leadership is always a fanscinating topic, under which I'm most interested in leader-follower interactions in a dynamic context.

1. Zhang, Y., Yang, Y., Johnson, J., Tu, Y. Temporal focus and ethical leadership. Stage: Conceputalization & Data Collection.

2. Li, D., Yang, Y., Tu, Y., Bai, Y. Awe and leadership in the workplace. Stage: Conceptualization.

Interdisciplinarity Research (Click to expand)

Research calls for interdisciplinarity. The development in AI, neural science, robots, new forms of teaming, etc. begs for more insights from us.

1. Yuan, S., Shao, Y., Xing, L., Yang, Y. Interdisciplinarity in Management Research. Target: Journal of Management Studies. Stage: Conceptualization.

2. Yuan, S., Jin. S, Lin, J., Yang, Y. Generative AI and Gender equity. Target: Journal of Business Ethics. Stage: Conceptualization/data collection.

3. Yuan, S., Duan. M, Xing, L., Yang, Y. Generative AI and value alignment. Stage: Conceptualization.

4. Li, T., Yang, Y. Consequences of choosing or rejecting minority job candidates by AI. Target: Journal of Business Ethics. Stage: Conceptualization/Data Collection

Other Research (Click to expand)

Research Incubator.

1. Chen, C., Kang, Y., Yang, Y., Zhang, J. Team intrapersonal functional diversity and team boundary spanning. Stage: Data analysis

Teaching

	2024 Fall, Organizational Behavior Workshop I organized 30 workshops for over 1500 students.
	2023 Spring, Master Thesis Supervision I supervised three students with their master thesis.
	2023 Spring, Bachelor Thesis Supervision I supervised 7 bachelor thesis teams with 28 bachelor students.
	2022 Fall, Professional Development and Consulting As an academic coach, I supervised 4 master student teams who worked as consultants to solve real-world Human Resource Challenges for major companies. Check this out: A Linkedin post from RSM.